The strongholds in Luzon are more than 90% sure that they can be defended under the attack of the natives. This is a great news for Zhao Yanlai. However, although there is no need to worry about the strongholds, there is something that will make him even more trouble. That is, how should we deal with the Kingdom of Liuke that attacked them in the future?

Originally, according to the plan formulated by Zhao Yan, when they encounter attacks overseas, they will definitely use thunder to fight back. When they encounter gods, kill gods, and when they encounter Buddhas, so the Liuke Kingdom dares to attack him, and has already been on the list of Zhao Yan's must-killing kills. However, this Liuke Kingdom is a bit special, because the capital of their kingdom is located inside Luzon Island, and the surrounding tropical rainforests can only pass through the rainforests if they want to attack them. However, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty are not familiar with the rainforests at all. If they rashly enter the dangerous rainforest, they may have been wiped out before the other party's capital will be wiped out.

Or if the Kingdom of Liuke fails to attack the Banana Bay stronghold, it will definitely hide in the capital. If Zhao Yan does not attack the other party, then the Kingdom of Liuke will definitely not give up due to the hatred they have formed. At that time, the Banana Bay stronghold will probably face endless harassment from the natives.

Thinking of the above situation, Zhao Yan couldn't even think about the headache. If he didn't fight, he couldn't reach the other party. This situation was really embarrassing. Of course, it was not impossible. For example, Zhao Yan was considering whether to win over some native kingdoms on Luzon Island, and then used these native kingdoms as thugs to wipe out the enemies on the island for the Song Dynasty. Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages to doing this. The advantage is that there are no need for the Song Dynasty to take action himself, and there is no need to risk entering the tropical jungle. But the disadvantages are obvious, that is, it is possible to raise a tiger to cause trouble. When other kingdoms are destroyed, the kingdoms supported by the Song Dynasty will definitely become stronger. If the Song Dynasty wants to unify Luzon, it will definitely conflict with these kingdoms again.

Half a month later, news came from Luzon that the Kingdom of Liuke gathered 20,000 troops to attack the stronghold in Banana Bay. Unfortunately, the news had been learned by the stronghold. The evil ghosts and others also made sufficient preparations. As a result, when the army of the Kingdom of Liuke came to attack, they were defeated by the evil ghosts and killed five or six thousand people, killing and injured five or six thousand people. Even the native prince who led the troops was killed in battle, but this also made the Song Dynasty and the Kingdom of Liuke a fight.

Although the king of the Liuke Kingdom suffered the pain of losing his son, he also saw from this battle that the gap between him and the Song Dynasty. In addition, he had so many sons, and death was nothing. So in the end, he suppressed the anger in his heart and temporarily gave up his plan to take revenge. Instead, he used his strengths to not only prohibit the people of his country from trading with the Song Dynasty, but also sent people everywhere to harass and attack the Song people. For a time, many casualties occurred among the Song people in Luzon, which made most people only stay in the stronghold and dare not come out.

Seeing this situation, Zhao Yan had no choice but to destroy the Kingdom of Liuke as soon as possible, otherwise it would bring a heavy blow to his strategy in Luzon. Therefore, Zhao Yan could only let Xu Yuan go to Luzon again, but Xu Yuan did not attack the Kingdom of Liuke, but Xu Yuan came forward to win over some native kingdoms. According to the information Zhao Yan found out, there were many enemies of the Kingdom of Liuke. Three of the seven known native kingdoms alone had huge conflicts of interest with the Kingdom of Liuke. Therefore, as long as the Song Dynasty was willing to pay some price, these native kingdoms would definitely be willing to destroy the other side for the Song Dynasty.

Just as Zhao Yan had just dealt with the matter in Luzon, there was finally nothing big in his hands. So he stayed with his wife and children at home, but unexpectedly, just a few months later, something huge suddenly happened in the world.

The drought has come, and it is also a severe drought in the world. In the territory of the Song Dynasty, regardless of north or south, it encountered a severe drought that was rare in a century. Countless crops died in the fields. It can be said that there were no harvests in the naked land. According to the information obtained by Zhao Yan, the grain harvest of the Song Dynasty this year is likely to be less than half of the previous years.

"Food! Food! The court will definitely have a huge food shortage this year. What should I do?" Su Shi, who was far away in Qiongzhou, rushed back to Guangzhou immediately after hearing the news, but now he is at a loss about this. You should know that the total grain output has been reduced by half, which means that half of the people in the Song Dynasty cannot have food, and then I don't know how many people will starve to death?

Zhao Yan also frowned at this time. He is not only worried about food now. In addition, if he remembers correctly, it seems that Wang Anshi's first time in history was because of this rare drought. If it were normal for Wang Anshi to be dismissed from prime minister Zhao Yan would only be happy, but if Wang Anshi stopped prime minister in the face of such natural disasters, it would definitely bring unprecedented shock to the political situation of the Song Dynasty, and it would definitely affect the efforts of disaster relief at that time. I don't know how many more people will die in the world?

"Your Highness, I heard that the large islands in Nanyang are rich in rice. Let's send people to buy more. Even if we can't solve this drought, we will finally do our best." At this time, Su Shi suddenly stopped and spoke again. Faced with such a severe drought, he could only think of this solution.

"Although Nanyang produces a lot of rice and does not lack food, the natives are too lazy and do not store grain at all. Moreover, we rarely purchase grain from Nanyang, so now we send people to collect it, and I am afraid there will be no gains." Zhao Yan frowned and said, "He didn't think it was a good way to buy grain from Nanyang.

"What should I do? Could it be that success can only watch the countless people starve to death during this great famine?" Su Shi actually knew that his thoughts were a bit unfeasible, so he sat down with a decadent look on his face.

"That may not be true. Your Highness, why do you forget that there is another place that stores a large amount of food?" At this moment, Zhao Yan suddenly heard a woman's voice from outside the living room. Then a woman in a navy suit walked in. It was Xu Yuan's old subordinate Yu Niang, and Zhao Yan also knew that this Yu Niang and Xu Yuan had some unclear relationship.

"Oh? Where is the place where General Qi said that there is a large amount of food?" Zhao Yan asked immediately. Because of the relationship between Yu Niang and Xu Yuan, he didn't feel good about Yu Niang. In addition, she was a woman, so she rarely invited her to come on her usual discussions, but she didn't expect that the other party would come here on his own initiative.

"Do you remember the big thing that our Rakshasa army did before the Song Dynasty?" Yu Niang did not answer Zhao Yan's question directly, but instead asked back.

"What did you do before?" Zhao Yan was stunned when she heard this, and then she showed a thoughtful expression on her face. Finally, she finally remembered it and said, "General Qi, are you talking about the incident where Rakshasa died invading Cham City?"

When Zhao Shu was seriously ill, Zhao Yan informed Xu Yuan to show his strength to gain the opportunity to be attached. So Xu Yuan led the Rakshasa army into Champa, and captured most of the other coastal cities in one fell swoop. Then it finally attracted the attention of the Song Dynasty and finally married the Princess of Shu. It was easy to capture the port of Champa. It was just that the Song Dynasty wanted to defend it, but the Song Dynasty did not have the strength yet. So in the end, the Rakshasa army just plundered the various ports, and then withdrew the troops under the order of the Song Dynasty. By the way, the Song Dynasty also sold a favor to Champa. After all, Champa was also a vassal state of the Song Dynasty.

"Your Highness is wise. This is what we will say at the end. Chameng has been a place of abundant rice since ancient times. The rice in the Song Dynasty is at most ripe for two a year, but there are rice seeds that are three or even four a year. When our Rakshasa army entered Chameng, we found that their port warehouse was full of rice. Some rice had already corroded into soil because it was stored for too long. Unfortunately, there were few people at that time and we could not retrieve these rice at all, so we could only burn it with fire." Yu Niang said at the end, and she also showed a look of pity on her face. If all the rice could be transported back, the Song Dynasty would probably not have to worry about the food problem this year.

"All burned? You...you are too...too prodigal!" Su Shi was so distressed when he heard this. He also remembered that the ancient books once recorded the abundant rice production in Chameng. Moreover, Chameng was different from the natives in the South China Sea. They were influenced by the Central Plains and were good at farming and had the habit of storing grain. Although the area in Chameng was small, their national grain output was very terrifying.

"Haha, why are Brother Zizhan confused? The Rakshasa army has attacked Cham City several years ago. Now after years of rest and recuperation, I'm afraid that the warehouses in Cham City will definitely be full of rice. Now we only need to send a ship to purchase it!" Zhao Yan reminded with a smile. He did not expect that Cham City, who was not paying much attention to, would solve the big trouble in front of him. He hoped that Cham City would have sufficient food reserves. After all, there were quite a lot of people suffering from disasters in the Song Dynasty.

The drought in the Song Dynasty continued to spread, and more and more places had no grain harvest. Thanks to the good harvest in the Song Dynasty in the past few years, and the economic situation in the Song Dynasty improved, many people stored some food at home, so there was no wave of hunger in a short period of time. However, the victims in some places could not stand it and began to leave their hometowns and flee to other places.

As the saying goes, disaster relief is like putting out a fire. After Zhao Yan knew that there was food in Chameng, he immediately organized a large fleet to go to Chameng to buy food. Now the entire sea trade is under his control, so it is very easy to requisition some sea ships. It is worth mentioning that although many merchants in the Song Dynasty were obsessed with profits, a considerable number of them knew how to take the overall situation into consideration. Many of them bought grain and transported it to the Song Dynasty, and some even escorted them personally. Zhao Yan also made someone record these merchants, and there will definitely be greater returns in the future.
Chapter completed!